first snow, kittens and a new hair style
Nick wished for snow on his birthday but I don't think he could have gotten his gift from earth earlier than today though. It's not so common to get the first snow in october down here! It's been quite cold, below freezing, a few nights in a row but not enough so that I think we get to keep this snow for very long. We are getting skis this weekend though so we will be ready for more winter.
Last week we got four kittens and a cat mom! We're supposed to socialise with them, making especially the kittens ready for their own human families in about six weeks when they will be old enough for adopting. They're "easy", since they're curious and when they're being shy you can trick them with holding a string or something in front of them to focus on so they forget that they're scared. Or just give them food and pet them while they eat. Hehe. The grey kitten is the biggest and always first in line for everything, including cuddles, so we like her the most. Mom is mostly in the book shelf. They all started out looking at us from behind the TV and a bulletin board we haven't hung up on the wall yet. They were laying on each other to fit in there, but eventually the mom got tired of the kittens and jumped up on the highest book shelf she could find. She used to just stare with hate at us, big pissed off kitty eyes... But now she can sleep by the window even when we're in the room so i guess that's progress. She will need a LOT of socialising time. And we take care of the litter box twice a day. Please grow up soon kittens, you stink. They got one piece of our old couch which was already kind of broken, to use as a climbing, fighting, sleeping and clawing center. That was a very good idea! They also kind of got our curtains actually, without even having to ask us. After we took away the bulletin board from them all the cats have started to jog and/or galop around the room (and the rest of the apartment, i found one of my shoes in the living room this morning) more, finding their own favourite sleeping spots. The grey one even jumped out of her shelf (the book shelf is used as an apartment building) just to lay in my lap for cuddling and purring today!
And I cut off some dreads for their third year anniversary. Then nick used his clippers on my newly exposed scalp, but i think he'll have to do it some more. I want it shorter! Some of the hairs really miss their old dreads and want to grow into one, it looks like i have square swirls or something on the top of my head... Like a checkers board without the colours. Difficult to describe but it looks weird and I hope it will look less weird if it's shorter. I like my new bangs though (coming from pulling out lots of hair from my scalp while un-teasing three dreads), and i kept my favourite dread close to the face! The saved ones are actually the ugliest ones, but they were in the best place for being able to have a pony tail. It is sooooo nice getting my hair wet and it's all dry in one day! And i can fit hats on my head now that winter is coming.
Need to call the cat people and ask for more litter today.
//Emma
